Thurston Hopkins

The photographers Grace and Thurston Hopkins at their home in Shoreham, Sussex. Taken as part of the UK at Home project, involving 50 professional photojournalists and thousands of members of the public who came together on 24-30 September 2007 to capture the essence of British domestic life at the beginning of the 21st century Photograph: Roger Bamber/Freelance

Twin girls with their faces pressed up against a window Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

1952, Scarborough: A barefoot, flat-capped customer visiting a fish stall Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

November 10 1956, Liverpool: A child sleeping in a slum dwelling in the backstreets of Liverpool, where 88,000 of the houses were deemed unfit for human habitation Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

August 8 1953: Participants in the Holiday Girl Beauty Competition at the Royal Pavilion sleeping on one of the beds Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

July 23 1955, Hebrides: An elderly lady spins wool on an old-fashioned spinning wheel Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

July 23 1955, Hebrides: Two schoolchildren share a textbook Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

November 19 1956, Liverpool: A pub landlady with some of her customers Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

1956, London: People dancing at the Gargoyle Club in Soho Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

1955, London: John and Sheila Phillips of Lambeth looking in a clothes shop window Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

January 22 1955, Birmingham: Jamaican immigrant Kwessi Blankson gives a light to workmate Jack White at The Phosphor Bronze Company where he is in charge of the oil burners Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty

1952, London: A sandwich-board man advertising a kosher restaurant in Oxford Street Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty